From reviews of the first edition: "The best, most balanced picture of the NAFTA] issue yet to appear.... Author William A. Orme, Jr. has covered Latin America as a journalist for 15 years, for the Economist and the Journal of Commerce as well as for the Washington Post.... He makes the case, firmly and clearly, that NAFTA isn't about a little cross-border turbulence at the very beginning; it's about the integration of yet another brawny adolescent economy into a growing world." -- Boston Globe " Orme] writes with wonderful clarity about the economic and political forces that produced the agreement." -- David S. Broder, Washington Post "Orme understands that NAFTA is really about fundamentally changing Mexico's long-run economic future.... But as he] correctly points out, very modest direct effects do not make NAFTA an unimportant agreement for the United States." -- Lester Thurow, author, The Zero Sum Society
Understanding NAFTA was first published in 1993 as Continental Shift: Free Trade & the New North America. This edition includes a new introduction that brings the NAFTA story up through 1995.
